After meeting a monstrous Q697-04 at Pauley Siding, eastbound manifest Q696-04 runs down the final few miles to the yard at Shelby, KY on a dreary September afternoon, rolling through the Pikevill... (more)

Q697 rolls through the man made cut-through in Pikeville, used to reroute the Levisa Fork away from downtown, taking the CSX main with it. An assortment of CSX power brings up the lead with a US A... (more)

Westbound S697 passes through the Pikeville Cut Through, a man-made river and railroad reroute away from downtown Pikeville. Daily freight has just returned to this stretch of railroad in the past... (more)

GP 30 3031 & GP9 6062 rumbles toward Shelby. This picture brings back fond memories for me as I lived in a apartment building behind the Coleman's ma and paw store. Many a times, I would lay in my... (more)

C&O veteran engineer Lon Venters Jr. is at the controls as 192 passes through Pikeville on the south end of town. The posted speed through the town was 30 mph. Knowing Lon I know he will waste no... (more)

With empty coal hoppers for the classification yard at Russell in tow, CSX #86 begins the trek up the Big Sandy Valley from Shelby to Russell, passing the ex-C&O bracket signals at the West End of... (more)

A CSX train of 102 empty hoppers dashes through the snow left by Winter Storm Octavia through the Robinson Creek community south of Pikeville. The train, en route to load at Myra, Ky., was the fir... (more)

Looking at the south end of town we have two truck mine tipples operations. Believe it or not there is five tracks in this photo. The first one on the left goes to the tipple with the truck in the... (more)

West Shifter sets out some plug door boxcars into the Big Sandy Warehouse spur. The black and white box on the left was the call box before radios came into use. This scene is long gone now .Now... (more)

The CSX track geometry train passes through Pikeville and a few remaining hints of vibrant fall color along the Big Sandy Subdivision. The train also has CSX's newest piece of hardware, a rebuilt ... (more)

An arsonist is suspected of setting the timber-lined Douglas Tunnel ablaze in the early morning hours of Sunday April 27th. Douglas is on the busy former C&O (ex B&O) Sandy Valley & Elkhorn Subdi... (more)